Jason Pine: Sports Contributor on Warriors v Raiders on Sunday, Auckland FC v Melbourne Victory on Saturday

The weekend’s biggest sports gamehave sold out.

The Warriors will play on Sunday after Auckland FC on Saturday – both at Auckland’s Go Media Stadium.

The Warriors will be looking to redeem themselves against the Raiders, who beat them in Las Vegas for the season opener.

Sports Contributor Jason Pine talks to Heather du Plessis-Allan about the games.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Jason Pine Weekend sport hosters with me a pony.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
I wish my text has agreed with me so vigorously, Heather.

Speaker 1 (00:06):
I haven't looked at the ones that disagree with me.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
I'm blanking them, no, and that's what I tend to do.
And there's nothing left to read.

Speaker 1 (00:12):
No, Oh, I see what your problem is. Okay, yeah,
fair enough. Listen, tell me if you need assistance, and
I'll just start spam texting you when you're on tomorrow
and just give you lots of good things to use.
But I have to go to the negative text soon anyway. Okay,
now listen, did you realize it sold out the football
and then it sold out the RUGGA League?

Speaker 2 (00:30):
So good? So good? You feel like you just want
to sort of park up at go medium Ount Smart
over the weekend. Right six o'clock tomorrow night Aukland FC
Melbourne victory one nill advantage after the first leg, so
just avoid defeat and you make the Grand Final which
will be back there over King's Birthday weekend, and then
just hang around because on Sunday six o'clock I'll get

(00:52):
the football post down, put the rugby league posts up,
and a whole new sellout crowd will roll in to
watch the Warriors up against the Raiders, so we know
beat the Warriors in Vegas to start the season, so
bit a revenge on the minds of this team which
has now won five in a row. Honestly, there's no
better place to be than Penrose this weekend and it's
not often you can say that.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
Do are you gonna come up for the for the footy?

Speaker 2 (01:15):
I'm here for the forty tomorrow, yeah, Or I'm there
for the forty tomorrow. I'm on an early flight up,
I'll do a radio show tomorrow, head out to go
media and just simply cannot wait for tomorrow night in
a football since Heather, as you say, extra seats up
near twenty seven, twenty eight, twenty nine thousand expected to
turn up. What an occasion and if they win, as
I say, it'll set up another one the following Saturday.

(01:38):
It's just been, by every measure, an incredible first season
for this team.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
Do you what I wanted to ask you is if
you come and do the commentating for the footy, do
you think get a little bit of a little bit
of it being looked after for the Warriors? Like do
they go oh, Piney just coming for free them. You
worked hard here on Saturday, you get a freebe on Sunday.

Speaker 2 (01:56):
Well, that hasn't happened yet, but I love the way
you're thinking. I love the way that that's out out there.
So look, if if they didn't offer it to you,
and Cameron George is a big listening to your show
as we know, so look if if he's happy to
accommodate me at around six o'clock on Sunday night, who
am I to turn down that?

Speaker 1 (02:14):
Do you know what I'm speaking? And listen to the
actual substance that we have to talk about here very quickly,
which is the sport. What worries me is that we're
just at that point in the Warrior season where we go, oh, hey,
this might be their year, and then remember what happened
in twenty twenty three, We were like, oh this.

Speaker 2 (02:30):
Might be hey, yeah they got to do that to yes,
or that only happened right at the end, right, So
I think I think we can be rightly optimistic when
they've won five games in a row. That's not common, right,
I mean, to win five matches in a row in
the NRAL, not many teams do that, and as we've
spoken about a lot, they're winning the type ones. You know,
they're winning by single digit margins, where last year they

(02:52):
weren't doing that at all. I think we can be optimistic.
I think we can be more optimistic if after the
next month Raiders Abideau's Sharks Panthers they are still on
a bit of a run, then we can start to
think it. But at the moment, I think we should
just enjoy the ride.

Speaker 1 (03:08):
Yeah, Okay, Piney, this is a good attitude from you.
I like it. Enjoy your weekend a sport and hopefully
they'll let you in on Sunday. That's Jason Pine weekend
Sport host.

Speaker 2 (03:15):
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